Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

June 2022

How To Set Up Dynamic Sampling in Moesif

Join Dylan as we show users how to create Dynamic Sampling rules within Moesif. In this tutorial, we will cover how to: Dynamic sampling is a fantastic cost-savings feature available to customers on our Enterprise plan. Dynamic sampling enables you to control which API calls are logged to Moesif based on customer or API behavior. Moesif will intelligently extrapolate metrics for accurate reporting even with multiple sample rates in place. That means that no matter what rules or sample rates you have set up you can be sure you are still seeing an accurate representation of your data.

You are Measuring API Active Users Wrong

API providers need to understand how their consumers are using their APIs. Usage metrics are essential because they tell you about API adoption, how your API is growing over time, and which endpoints are seeing more (or less) use. When you look at API usage metrics, you should be measuring the active users on your API in the sense that most closely aligns with your service.

GraphQL Versus RESTAPI Which is Better for API Observability

API providers need to observe their APIs to get meaningful data about whether and how they are consumed in practice. API observability is a form of monitoring that passively logs API traffic to an observability service. Different from traditional API monitoring, with API observability you: Monitor interactions to improve developer experience Understand how customers use your API Troubleshoot your API Observing REST APIs is well understood and supported, but not every API is a REST API.

Why Content Is the Key to Unlocking Your Developer-First Marketing Strategy

Founding a developer-first startup isn’t quite the same as starting a regular company. When your primary focus is on creating products to sell to developers, you need to build a sales strategy around those developers’ needs. The occasional email with a ‘click here for a demo’ button just won’t cut it. Instead, it’s time to work on your content strategy. Why take our word for it?

Meeting Moesif with SEO Manager Savannah Whitman

Growing your career can be both scary and exciting, and our SEO manager Savannah Whitman experienced both before joining Moesif. Now she’s nurturing search rankings to bring the latest in API observability to technologists who need it. In this installment of Meeting Moesif, we talk to her about where API technology is heading, and what it takes to keep up.

How To Monetize Your APIs: Choosing Your API Monetization Stack

The technology you choose to start your project with determines what your product is capable of now and what it will be capable of in the future. Finding the right stack to build on top of is one of the biggest engineering challenges you can face. Picking a stack that allows you to build a product and get to market rapidly is great unless that same choice limits the scalability and features of a product in the future.

How To Create Static Alerts In Moesif

Using alerts can add a lot of value for your team, product, and users. Static alerts work well when the threshold is constant and predictable. Creating a dynamic alert can be done in a matter of minutes, instantly levelling-up your API monitoring strategy. Join Dylan as he shows users how to create Static Alerts within Moesif. In this tutorial, we will cover how to: Powerful API analytics, a perfect companion for your API Gateway, is only a few moments away.

How To Create Dynamic Alerts in Moesif

Using alerts can add a lot of value for your team, product, and users. Dynamic alerts work well if you aren’t sure of a specific threshold but want to keep an eye on abnormalities in traffic or events. Creating a dynamic alert can be done in a matter of minutes, instantly levelling-up your API monitoring strategy. Join Dylan as he shows users how to create Dynamic Alerts within Moesif.

How To Create a User Funnel in Moesif

User Funnels allow businesses to analyze how individual users are using and converting within their product. Funnel metrics can show how many users are converting through each stage of the funnel and the average time it takes to do so with beautiful graphs and insightful statistics. Join Dylan as he shows users how to set up a conversion funnel analysis in Moesif by leveraging the User Funnels feature.

How To Integrate Moesif and Kong Gateway Enterprise Edition

Kong is an extremely popular way to quickly and securely manage your RESTful APIs. Moesif is a great addition on top of Kong to cover everything from analytics to helping you set up metered billing. Join Dylan as he shows users how to integrate Moesif with Kong Gateway Enterprise Edition. In this tutorial, we will cover how to: Powerful API analytics, a perfect companion for your API Gateway, is only a few moments away.

End-to-End API Monetization with Tyk, Stripe, and Moesif

Many API developers and companies struggle to find ways to easily set up systems to monetize their APIs. Some are simple but not customizable, some are complex and require massive engineering effort to actually get it all running. To make things easier, Moesif created a feature a few months ago called Billing Meters which gives massive customizability but with a minimal amount of code and engineering effort.

Maximize Your API Revenue

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is projecting a significant slowdown over the coming years, with global growth dropping sharply from an estimated 6.1 percent in 2021 to 3.6 percent in 2022 and 2023. Meanwhile, Reuters polls reveal that the global streak of high inflation is far from over. As such, businesses need to be doing all they can to maximize their revenue – not through increasing spend on new infrastructure, but by getting maximum business value out of their existing product.